Document Template with Managed Metadata Across Site Collections

Question

We have a Document Template that has several managed metadata fields. We would like to use this template across several (50+) site collections. However, we get the following error when we try to create the library in a different site collection.

Unable to open Lookup list '{f0b3822d-fa99-45d8-b54d-354cd3bdd12f}'.[Error was 0x81020026]

The list GUID in the error is for the "TaxonomyHiddenList" in the site collection where the template was created.

I have seen one suggestion that says to change the hidden list's GUID in the destination property bag, but that seems more like a hack than a solution.

Any suggestions on how we can make this template work across multiple site collections?

Answer 1

I had the same error yesterday. Open the elements.xml that defines the SiteColumns and delete the WebID and ListId properties of the SiteColumn. This works fine because the TaxonomyHiddenList gets found without the correct GUID. There's no need for the properties to get the sitecolumn to work.